Ultrasound Mammography Methods, Results, Diagnostic Strategies / by Bernd-Joachim Hackelöer, Volker Duda, Günther Lauth.

For most areas of medical ultrasound, textbooks that provide physicians with detailed, practical information are readily available. Unfortunately, for the field of ultrasound mammography, such texts are few in number, in comparison to the num­ ber available for other fields of medical ultrasound. Th...

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Main Authors: Hackelöer, Bernd-Joachim (Author), Duda, Volker (Author), Lauth, Günther (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1989.
Edition:1st ed. 1989.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Basic Technical and Methodologie Aspects of Breast Sonography
  • Fundamentals of the Examination Technique
  • Anatomic Structures and Their Sonographic Correlates
  • Glandular Tissue
  • Focal Lesions
  • 2 Benign Diseases
  • Duct Ectasia
  • Simple Cysts
  • Cysts with Internal Echoes
  • Mastitis
  • Rare Benign Breast Tumors
  • Lipoma and Fat Necrosis
  • Granular Cell Tumors
  • Fibroadenomas
  • Diffuse Benign Breast Diseases
  • Fibrocystic Diseases
  • Sclerosing Adenosis and Fibrosclerosis
  • 3 Malignant Diseases
  • Breast Carcinoma
  • Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma
  • 4 Other Lesions
  • Effects of Iatrogenic Measures on Breast Sonograms
  • Hematomas
  • Scar and Tissue Defects
  • Mammoplastic Procedures
  • Mastectomy and Radiation to the Breast
  • Gynecomastia
  • 5 The Place of Sonography in Breast Diagnosis
  • Sonography Versus Palpation
  • Sonography Versus Thermography
  • Sonography Versus X-Ray Mammography
  • Microcalcifications
  • Screening
  • Sonographic Guidance of Needle Aspirations and Biopsies
  • Sonography Versus Pathohistology
  • 6 Evolution and Status of Breast Sonography: Instrumentation and User Requirements
  • 7 The Complementary Role of Blood Flow Assessment to Ultrasonic Imaging
  • Vasculature of the Breast
  • Neovascularization
  • Assessment of Vascularity
  • Integration of Flow Assessment with Imaging
  • Clinical Evaluation
  • Results
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions.